You know you're a home brewer when?

[ncsuwerewolf]

I have one gallon jugs of random all over my house. Starters, cakes, sanitizer and yeast washing. And now one dedicated for racking starter into to keep my solera vinegar project moving. My brown ale malt vinegar is fantastic. Time to move 3/4 of it and top that jug up.

 

[JunkCatsOnThePorch]

You have two free days ahead and all you can think about is planning your brews.

Saturday-BBQ Blonde with us-05

Sunday-Belgian Wit with wyeast 3944 starter you made before brewing on Saturday.

 

[DrunkleJon]

You recycle 2 trash bags of bottles while cleaning out the garage/brew area and still have a good half dozen cases of bottles. Especially when you havent bottled a batch in a while.

 

[Amadeo38]

The pot of boiling noodles starts to foam over and you frantically look around for your jar of Fermcap-S

 

[brewcat]

I had a weird dream over the weekend that I was at a friends house, one that i hadn't seen in over a decade, and we were doing drugs. Snorting stuff to be specific. I was telling SWMBO about it and she asks "like what kind of drugs?"

my response was "would you believe me if I said it was powderized hops?"

Speaking of dreams. How about nightmares? Waking up in a cold sweat because somehow you didn't bother sanitizing the fermenter.

Must have been reading too much beginner forum.

 

[m00ps]

Speaking of dreams. How about nightmares? Waking up in a cold sweat because somehow you didn't bother sanitizing the fermenter.

Must have been reading too much beginner forum.

I think I posted this somewhere on this thread or elsewhere but there was a period where I had a recurring homebrew nightmare

I use a rope tub + aquarium heater setup to heat my saisons and keep them stable at hot temps. I kept having a dream where I would wake up and find the carboy had inverted and the wort was slowly mixing with the dirty ass recycled water in the tub

 

[Amadeo38]

I use a rope tub + aquarium heater setup to heat my saisons and keep them stable at hot temps. I kept having a dream where I would wake up and find the carboy had inverted and the wort was slowly mixing with the dirty ass recycled water in the tub

I do this too! It works great.

You know you're a homebrewer when you've never used a laundry tub for actual laundry.

 

[kal]

When you live in an absolute pigsty of a house with 6 other guys where the only clean thing is the bathtub (because that's where you soak your bottles in bleach)*

*This was me in late 80's to early 90's living with 6 other guys in University. We had rats in the house it was so dirty, but we could have eaten off the bathtub surface - it was so clean (6 out of 7 guys were homebrewers and the bathtub was always full of soaking bottles - it was never used as an actual tub for bathing).

Kal

 

[Yeastieboy]

Amen to that. My phone's always a Jackson ******* painting after brewing.

 

[mongoose33]

....you're standing in the shower and you think "I'm sparging the shampoo out of my hair."

 

[GrogNerd]

....you're standing in the shower and you think "I'm sparging the shampoo out of my hair."

Mashing in shampoo, sparging it out

Conditioning for aroma

 

[kal]

I want to know how you dry hop....

Kal

 

[Kiichi]

This is my favorite shampoo. Ain´t even kidding. My hair loves it. Germany does some things right.

Now I just need to get around to making some oil for my beard and infusing it with hops. Simcoe should do nicely.

 

[Onkel_Udo]

A small one but...

You own the specialized water heater element wrench...and in 40+ years never owned an electric water heater.

 

[kal]

A small one but...

You own the specialized water heater element wrench...and in 40+ years never owned an electric water heater.

Ha! That one's familiar....

Kal

 

[GrogNerd]

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[GrogNerd]

when you see this on the road and your first thought is "well, that ain't gonna work; a combined sparge mash?"

 

[BaylessBrewer]

When the 3 kegs you own are full, your fermenters are full and you have 2 more batches on deck waiting to brew even thought you have no where to ferment it or store it.
I think I need a beer!

 

[woo_pig]

When you start bringing home scrap pieces from your construction job for a DIY build.

 

[Onkel_Udo]

When you start bringing home scrap pieces from your construction job for a DIY build.

This applies more to my racecar than brewing but...

When you start cruising moving and garage sales for used bed frames because they are the cheap form of decent angle iron for a brew stand.

 

[PADave]

When the 3 kegs you own are full, your fermenters are full and you have 2 more batches on deck waiting to brew even thought you have no where to ferment it or store it.
I think I need a beer!

Exactly my situation right now. All my bottles will be full after bottling the next two brews in the fermenters right now. Bought another fermenter so I can make the 3 brews I got ingredients sitting here for. Time to empty some bottles, need to put it somewhere.

 

[woo_pig]

This applies more to my racecar than brewing but...

When you start cruising moving and garage sales for used bed frames because they are the cheap form of decent angle iron for a brew stand.

You have pieces of car laying around on a construction site?

 

[woo_pig]

Exactly my situation right now. All my bottles will be full after bottling the next two brews in the fermenters right now. Bought another fermenter so I can make the 3 brews I got ingredients sitting here for. Time to empty some bottles, need to put it somewhere.

I got a place you can put them.

 

[Onkel_Udo]

You have pieces of car laying around on a construction site?

Huh? I re-read my post a few times and still am not seeing the connection?

 

[GilSwillBasementBrews]

Huh? I re-read my post a few times and still am not seeing the connection?

I believe the quote from woopig had referenced binging home stuff from a construction site and you posted it applied more to your race car which is where I believe he was questioning finding auto parts at a construction site.

 

[Onkel_Udo]

I believe the quote from woopig had referenced binging home stuff from a construction site and you posted it applied more to your race car which is where I believe he was questioning finding auto parts at a construction site.

Now I follow...that was not my intent in the post but oddly it fits. Yes, we dress our race car with sonotubes, 2" x 8", OSB, black gas pipe, etc.

The bed frames have twice been scavenged from "demo" sites where they were gutting house for remodel hence the connection at least in my head with construction sites even though i only mention garage sales and whatnot.

 

[Yeastieboy]

You're trying to juggle reading stories to the kids at bedtime with circulating some warm PBW solution through your plate chiller and grinding grain in preparation for Friday brewing.

 

[Murphys_Law]

You have 3 styles of dirty beer glasses to wash from last night, and you were the only one drinking (pint; pilsner and hefe).

 

[PADave]

Me: Did FedEx come today?
Wife: For what?
Me: Hops that I ordered for a beer.
Wife: I thought you ordered 3 beers and didn't have enough bottles for them. You ordered more? rolls eyes.

She still hasn't noticed that new fermenter that I filled today. Ordered the ingredients to get over the free shipping minimum.

 

[pshankstar]

Me: Did FedEx come today?

Wife: For what?

Me: Hops that I ordered for a beer.

Wife: I thought you ordered 3 beers and didn't have enough bottles for them. You ordered more? rolls eyes.



She still hasn't noticed that new fermenter that I filled today. Ordered the ingredients to get over the free shipping minimum.

This is awesome!!!